There’s all sorts of theories on why Banksy’s NYC-based Better Out Than In work is getting stomped out so quickly. According to one “graffiti historian,” writers don’t like Banksy’s art because he’s “pandering to the mainstream.” But that’s not it, graffiti has always attempted to poke its stick into the mainstream, even while its participants–for the most part–have lived outside of it. So what is it? Graffiti has never had one cohesive voice, so we decided to go right to the people who know the most about it and ask them why they think Banksy is such a target.

To me, it comes down to how much easier it is to tear down what someone else has done than it is to create something yourself. Most of the world is cynical and reactionary… They are jealous of those with the courage to DO something. Success engenders admiration AND contempt. Banksy is a victim of his own success. The democracy of the streets is a double-edged sword, but I pull for the resourceful underdog and I wouldn’t have it any other way and I doubt Banksy would either.

Anyway, there seems to be a distorted narrative in the street art / graff culture that equates a diss or two to “NYC has turned against you.” That’s like saying that JFK’s assassination meant that “America turned against JFK,” or any other absurd generalization.

There are idiots in every niche of culture and the streets have their share. I try to embrace the good and rise above the bullshit. Regardless of how unfortunate it is that his pieces aren’t lasting longer, Banksy wins because he’s doing, while most everyone else is just reacting or worse… talking, so I’ll shut up now.

They are not impressed with someone coming to town trying to create an overnight blitz fame campaign. To gain respect and last streetwise in New York, you need to put down a lot of work and work your way up no matter who you are or how famous you are elsewhere. Writers in New York work extremely hard to stand out and when someone new comes to town and gets a lot attention, writers react. I have a lot of respect for artists and writers in New York. It is not easy to make a mark and last on the streets.

Personally, I like Banksy’s street stuff. His work has a sense of humor and provokes thought. What is exciting is that he is not a public figure and that his only interaction with the public and graffiti is on the streets. Graffiti is a form of self-expression, but also a form of vandalism, so there should be no rules. If you are at a spot and feel like side busting or going over someone that should be part of the scene. Whatever happens to Banksy’s work in New York doesn’t really matter. People get to see it, if not on the wall then in pictures, people talk about it and react. What more can you ask for as an artist? You paint and the world reacts.

Number 1: Graffiti writers hate. Why would you go over the dude? These graffiti writers get jealous cause he’s gets all the hype. He does a simple stencil with a simple image and a lot graffiti writers feel it’s fake or that it’s not graffiti.

I think it’s kind of wack that people are dissing his shit. They know that Banksy is getting all this hype, so if they cross him out, they get fame. They know people are going to talk about it on the Internet.

Who cares if he’s not considered a graffiti writer or not? He came to New York and he’s doing something dope. Here comes all the haters. I’m not sticking up for the guy; I’m just looking at it.

New York writers, for the most part, think that street artists suck and they give them little to no respect. This should come as no surprise as street artists generally do not give writers respect and will go over a tag or throw-up with a poster without thinking twice about it.

Another reason is that they are looking for quick and easy fame. How? Well, if they cross out Banksy they will be noticed by the masses who are jocking Banksy. It’s a quick and dirty way to get attention. Another reason is simple hate. Who wants some out-of-towner coming in and getting so much attention when there are plenty of artists and writers putting in work on the street that get little to no attention by the media or the masses?

Its fair game to cross this stuff out if they cross you out. Some will even get knocked out from time to time. The competition for space and attention in the streets can be fierce and may writers see street artists as sell-outs that should just stick to the galleries in the first place thus leaving the streets for the writers not the overnight sensations.

We New Yorkers are natural born haters! We pride ourselves on our homegrown products, especially due to the grueling nature of survival in NYC.

Anyway, most people of color don’t really recognize Banksy’s work from any other street art, so it usually jealous white kids crossing him out.

Thus, I couldn’t give a rat’s ass. “Street Art” was created by white people for white people, denying the rich socio-political and ethnically diverse original world of Subway Art it’s proper due acknowledgements!

Several reasons including jealousy, easy mainstream fame, issues with the public/press associating his work with “graffiti,” Team Robbo, etc…

There’s tons of street art in NYC and a lot of it co-exists with graffiti. A lot of graffiti artists dedicate their lives to an art form that doesn’t get nearly as much attention as just one Banksy piece. Some graffiti artists could care less but some just hate on that fact. Some just want an easy way to get fame amongst the mainstream and you can’t blame them because it works.

Banksy’s work is part of pop culture at this point, so it’s also going to create a lot of controversy when there’s mainstream people jumping into the picture and labeling everything he does “graffiti.”

Whether you like it or not, the name Banksy is undoubtedly the most popular name that is associated with graffiti and street art among the masses, even if what he does is not “graffiti.” Since a big part of graffiti has to do with achieving fame, you can see how that causes a bit of a conflict.

Overall, I enjoy the controversy and I feel that it is a positive thing for the culture over time. It makes the masses open up their eyes to something they once ignored.

Sure, a lot of the initial opinions of the public may be “toy” (for lack of a better word), but for those who want to take that extra step and research further, you have someone like Sacha Jenkins educating them. For the art world, the ripple effect of his work can be seen in the rising prices at street art/graffiti auctions.

I didn’t even know Banksy was in town. But then, I read about it in the New York Times, I saw it on the Village Voice. I saw it on PBS and on the Colbert Report.

The spotlight is on Banksy right now. Anything within proximity of his work will likely show up in print, on air, or on the Internet. I suspect there’s a legit handful who have a beef with him, but not many.

No disrespect to anyone, but it seems like they want to hitch their wagon to his star. OMAR is a good example of the attention you can get by going over Banksy.

The rift between graffiti and street art is nothing new. Around 1987 we started transitioning from popping trains to hitting the streets.

I remember when an artist named Rene used to paint his “I am the best artist” murals over one of my pieces. So I made it a point to cross his shit out and go find out where his studio is and even write on his door.

We graffiti writers have a code: You go over us, we’re gonna go over you.

A white journalist offered up the handle "graffiti historian". LOL. White people love to create labels. Ever notice that? I'm sure "slave" was once in quotes. But I do sincerely appreciate your "journalism."

"What is exciting is that he is not a public figure and that his only interaction with the public and graffiti is on the streets."

While I do believe that covering up or "vandalizing" his work is f*cked up, I also believe that "vandals" are trying to find a way to communicate with Banksy in the only way that he's allowing for us to communicate with him – through witty, thought-provoking, conversation-starting street art. If you "know" Banksy, you know that the chances of you finding him tagging up a wall are nill… so why not respond? Why not react?

If none of the vandals ever have the opportunity to work with Banksy, I think putting their art next to his is as close as close is going to get with him – and for some, that's close enough.

I just feel this is all acceptable vandalism under the pretense of it being art. Find a traditional medium and grown up. The people who designed and built those structures being used as the "canvas" never meant for you to graffiti them. I thought you were supposed to get out of that drawing on the wall phase sometime during childhood.

I'm not going to say graffiti artists are talentless, but I don't think they have what it takes to draw an audience to their work, so they take their work where they know there will be an audience.

It makes me sad for the graffiti artist because they aren't good enough to make money legitimately as an artist, I feel bad for the owner of the business that's been vandalized and I feel bad for anyone who has to see it. It makes the city look like trash.

I can't help but find some humor in them painting over each other's works though. It's funny that they vandalize themselves. Then again, that's kinda sad too.

Someone here mentioned that the image is of a fake-cover up created by Banksy, which seems possible given that there are only two colors for all the tags. But on the off chance that it is legitimate… How is it that someone like Shepard Fairey can say all that about jealousy and contempt for the successful when he defaced the piece too and is himself a successful street artist? And how ironic that these guys are taking digs at Banksy for "selling out" or "pandering to the mainstream", I am again thinking namely of Shepard Fairey here, who capitalized on his style to the nth degree with his OBEY merchandise. What petty little children

The reason most writers don't 'get their due' is that most suck. The word is filled with 'fine artists' who don't get their due either. Just because you spray paint a wall or oil paint on a canvas or sculpt clay doesn't mean that you're great or that anyone else should think so. Those that get famous, and maintain that fame, are both brilliant and know how to play 'the game'. Sorry if you're neither. Banksy is both, in my opinion. His work is funny and makes brilliant social commentary. Tagging your name on a wall, be it on the 1980's or now, isn't innately either of those things. If you do your 'art' for fame, to 'get your due', then you better get smarter and learn how to work it. Believe me, if there's a way to monetize it, someone will think you're a genius. If you do it just because you love it and it makes you feel good, then it's no matter if anyone notices you. Wah. People think Banksy's great and not me. And what the fuck is wrong with capitalizing on what you do? We all have rent to pay. Is it better working the fry line at Micky D's and keeping true to your street cred? If so, supersize me.

No different than dogs that have to lift their legs on the same tree that another dog just marked. Laughed at the term "writer" for a guy with a spray can marking up public spaces. "Vandal" would suffice.

STORY WRITTEN FOR & USED WITH PERMISSIONPosted: March 5, 2009 Credit: NASAIn a galaxy of 200 billion or more stars, one could argue planets like Earth – orbiting suitable stars in habitable “Goldilocks” zones where water exists in liquid form and the temperature is not too hot or too cold – must be common. After all, if only a tiny fraction of the Milky Way’s stars harbor such planets, one could still expect untold thousands, if not millions, of potentially habitable worlds. And with numbers like that, it’s not at all unreasonable to suppose life arose on at least some of them. Extending that argument to the countless galaxies populating the observable universe, one could easily assume the cosmos must be teeming with life.But statistics alone prove nothing about how solar systems might be constructed. While more than 340 planets have been detected orbiting other stars, the limitations of Earth-based observations mean, with a few exceptions, only huge, Jupiter-class gas giants have been identified to date, many of them orbiting hellishly close to their parent stars.Whether such seemingly strange solar system architectures are common or whether they are simply easier to detect using current methods, is not yet clear. Whether Earth-like planets are common or rare is simply unknown. But it is a question with profound implications, one at the heart of any debate about the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe.NASA plans to take a major step toward answering that question, one way or the other, with launch of a Delta 2 rocket Friday carrying a sophisticated solar-powered satellite called Kepler that is equipped with one of the most powerful digital cameras ever built for space. The $591 million mission is scheduled for liftoff from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 10:49:57 p.m. EST.”To this point in time, if you asked me are there other earth’s out there, I’d say absolutely, there have to be, we can’t be so special,” said NASA science chief Ed Weiler. “But if you ask me to prove it, I can’t.”The Kepler mission “very possibly could tell us that earths are very, very common, that we have lots of neighbors out there. Or, it could tell us that earth’s are really, really, really rare, perhaps we’re the only Earth,” Weiler said. “I think that would be a very bad answer because I for one don’t want to live in an empty universe where we’re the best there is! That’s a scary thought to many of us. But Kepler will tell us that answer and it will tell us soon.”Trailing the Earth in its orbit around the sun, the Kepler spacecraft will aim a 95-megapixel camera on a patch of sky the size of an out-stretched hand that contains more than 4.5 million detectable stars. Of that total, the science team has picked some 300,000 that are of the right age, composition and brightness to host Earth-like planets. Over the life of the mission, more than 100,000 of those will be actively monitored by Kepler. Kepler during launch preps in Florida. Credit: Ben Cooper/Spaceflight NowThe spacecraft’s camera will not take pictures like other space telescopes, rather it will act as a photometer and continually monitor the brightness of candidate stars in its wide field of view and the slight dimming that will result if planets happen to pass in front.By studying subtle changes in brightness from such planetary transits – comparable to watching a flea creep across a car’s headlight at night – and the timing of repeated cycles, computer analysis can ferret out potential Earth-like worlds in habitable-zone orbits.The probability of finding sun-like stars with Earth-like planets in orbits simliar to ours – and aligned so that Kepler can “see” them – is about one-half of 1 percent. Given the sample size, however, that still leaves hundreds of potential discoveries.But it will take three-and-a-half years of around-the-clock observations to capture the repeated cycles needed to confirm detection of an Earth-like world.”Kepler is designed to find hundreds of Earth-size planets, if such planets are common around stars, dozen of these planets, if they are in the habitable zone,” said William Borucki, Kepler principal investigator at NASA’s Ames Research Center.”If we find that many, it certainly will mean that life may well be common throughout our galaxy because there’s an opportunity for life to have a place to evolve. If, on the other hand, we don’t find any, that will be another profound discovery. It will mean that Earths must be very rare, we might be the only life in our Universe. In fact, it will mean there will be no Star Trek.”But he quickly added: “We are hoping to find hundreds, of course. … Although Kepler will not find E.T., it is hoping to find E.T.’s home.”Jon Morse, director of astrophysics at NASA headquarters in Washington, described Kepler as “our planetary census taker.””We’re going to get the full sweep of the types of planets in different types of orbits around different types of stars through a big cross-section of our galaxy,” he said. “It is going to shape the way that we formulate our plans for future missions on our quest to find Earth-like planets and study their atmospheres and look for the bio-markers like the types of molecules in our atmosphere that may indicate life.”Said Michael Bicay, director of science at the Ames Research Center: “The ramifications of the results of this mission, whatever those results are, are going to be significant in our understanding of the frequency of Earth-size planets in the local galaxy and the habitable zones.” Where Kepler will look. Credit: NASASee larger image Named in honor of Johannes Kepler, the 17th century Copernican astronomer who formulated the laws of planetary motion, NASA’s newest science satellite weighs 2,320 pounds and measures 15.3 feet from top to bottom. It is equipped with four solar panels capable of generating 1,100 watts of power, a radiation-hardened PowerPC flight computer and a Ka-band communications link to relay science data back to Earth. The spacecraft was built by Ball Aerospace of Boulder, Colo.Following launch from Complex 17B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Kepler will pass the moon’s orbit in just two days as it heads into a 371-day orbit around the sun, separating slowly from Earth. It will aim itself at a patch of sky near the left wing of Cygnus the Swan, midway between the stars Deneb and Vega.And then, Kepler will simply stare at the same stars for three-and-a-half years.The science team will check in twice a week to check the spacecraft’s health and upload commands. Once a month, Kepler will look away from its target area, point is high-gain antenna toward Earth and downlink stored data. Every three months, the spacecraft will rotate 90-degrees around its long axis to keep its fixed solar panels face on to the sun and its radiator pointed toward deep space.Kepler’s single science instrument is built around a 55-inch mirror and a 37-inch corrector plate that represents a modified Schmidt telescope design. Light from the primary mirror comes to a focus on an assembly of charge coupled devices, or CCDs, similar in operation to the chips used in commercial video and still cameras.But unlike commercial cameras, Kepler’s Focal Plane Array is made up of 42 CCDs, each one measuring 2.32 inches by 1.1 inches and containing 2,200 by 1,024 picture elements, or pixels, for a total of 95 million pixels. The focal plane will be maintained at minus 121 degrees Fahrenheit to improve sensitivity and minimize electrical “noise” in the system. Special lenses will smear out the starlight slightly to make slight changes in brightness more easily detectable. A technician completes the installation of CCD modules into the focal plane assembly. Credit: Ball Aerospace”An Earth-like planet passing in front of a sun-like star is going to cause the brightness of that star to dim by only 1 part per 10,000,” said Natalie Batalha, a Kepler co-investigator at San Jose State University. “That’s like looking at a headlight from a great distance and trying to sense the brightness change when a flea crawls across the surface. But the Kepler instrument is designed to detect such small changes in brightness.”Kepler will be aimed at the same spot in the sky, measuring 10 degrees by 10 degrees, for the life of the mission, actively observing more than 100,000 candidate stars. In contrast, the moon’s apparent angular diameter is 0.5 degrees. The Hubble Space Telescope focuses on areas the size of a rice grain held at arm’s length.A planetary transit will cause the light from a target star to dim, or wink, on timescales of one to 12 hours, depending on the type of star and the size of the planet’s orbit. For a planet like Earth passing in front of a star like the sun, the star’s light would dim by just 84 parts per million, or less than 1/100th of 1 percent.Kepler is capable of detecting Earth-like planets around stars ranging from 600 to 3,000 light years away.The Kepler team is particularly interested in planets that may orbit within a star’s habitable zone, the region around a star where water on a planet can exist as a liquid. Habitable zones vary in location depending on a star’s size and brilliance. By timing changes in a star’s light as a transit occurs, scientists can figure out the size of a presumed planet’s orbit and thus whether it falls in that star’s habitable zone.”The habitable zone is where we think water will be,” Borucki said. “If you can find liquid water on the surface, we think we may very well find life there. So that zone is not too close to the star, because it’s too hot and the water boils. Not too far away where the water’s condensed and ice-covered, a planet covered with glaciers. It’s the goldilocks zone, not too hot, not too cold, just right for life.”Brief changes in a star’s light output imply an extremely hot planet orbiting close to its parent. Longer transits imply planets at greater distances.”We are interested in finding planets that are not too hot, not too cold, but just right,” Borucki said. An artist’s concept of a planet passing in front of its parent star. Credit: NASAIn its first year of operation, Kepler is expected to discover Jupiter-class super planets orbiting close to their parent stars with periods of just a few days. The Kepler team requires multiple transits to make sure the photometer is not seeing some other phenomenon, like the passage of an unseen companion star or a major disturbance in the target star’s appearance. Ground-based astronomers then will be asked to attempt confirmation and only then will results be announced.”After several months of data processing and confirmation by ground-based telescopes, scientists hope to announce their first results approximately in December 2009 at NASA Headquarters … about giant planets found in short-period orbits,” NASA said in its Kepler press kit.”Discovery of Earth-size planets in Earth-like orbits requires nearly the full lifetime of the 3.5-year mission, although in some cases three transits are seen in just a little more than two years. Other results that require the full 3.5 years of data are: Planets as small as Mars in short period orbits, which utilizes the addition of dozens or more transits to be detectable; and the detection of giant-inner planets that do not transit the star, but do periodically modulate the apparent brightness due to reflected light from the planet.”The first announcement of any Earth-like planets orbiting stars like the sun is not expected before December 2012.”What I’m hoping, expecting to see as a community scientist is in the first six months to a year, the big, massive hot Jupiters are going to roll off the Kepler assembly line,” said Debra Fischer, astronomy professor at San Francisco State University and a veteran exoplanet observer. “This is exciting because these are bizarre planets. We don’t really understand the statistics, how they form, how they moved into their current position and just the sheer number of these objects that Kepler will find is going to help us learn a lot about the systems.”And then the next class of planets I think will roll out will be perhaps the hot Neptunes,” she said. “Significantly smaller than Jupiter, these objects are thought to exist around something like 30 percent of stars like our sun and low-mass stars. And if that is correct, then Kepler should see quite a few of these very large, something like 17 times the mass of the Earth, orbiting.””And then the hardest detection and by far the most exciting is going to be the detection of bona fide Earths – small, rocky planets, Earth-size planets.”While such planets are often thought of as terrestrial “rocky” worlds, “I think that the science fiction writers are going to be challenged to imagine the diversity that we could expect to find, even in this type of planets,” Fischer said. “They may not be rocky worlds, they may be water worlds without plate tectonics that force the landmass up above the oceans. These could be worlds that, in fact, have life like our oceans, OK? 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In advance of the 2F era, thesatellite accommodations were upgraded with modifications that includedstricter cleanliness, security changes, a larger door at entrance of themain bay and installation of a more-precise crane.”Most of the existing capabilities were there. It was just improving thecurrent capabilities to tailor it to the spacecraft a little more,” Halesaid.Area 59 features two large buildings where GPS 2F-1 has traveled throughduring the past couple of months en route to the launch pad, Hale said.”We have the NAVSTAR Processing Facility, the NPF, that’s where thetesting is done and the very first portion of processing is done. 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The newly-launched satellites were themselves fitted with asolid-fuel kick motor that ignited a few days into flight and finished thejob of propelling the craft into a circular orbit.United Launch Alliance’s powerful Delta 4 and Atlas 5 rockets will haulthe GPS 2F satellites directly to their desired destinations, bypassingthe circuitous route of the past. So instead of taking days to reach theGPS orbit, the new 2F-1 satellite will get there in three-and-a-half hourson launch night.And without having to deal with that kick stage, the Cape team’s work isvastly simplified because it doesn’t have put the satellites throughstringent spin-balancing and attaching the motor.What’s more, the two-piece shroud that serves as the rocket’s nose conewill be brought into the cleanroom and placed around the satellite insteadof doing that work at the pad like Delta 2 did. The encapsulated GPS 2F-1payload will be driven to the pad already buttoned up to launch.Before the satellite meets the Delta 4, the past few weeks have involvedinstalling the batteries, loading the maneuvering propellant, working withthe adapter hardware needed to mount GPS 2F-1 onto the rocket and puttingthe final touches on the separation system that will release the craftfrom the launcher.”It’s all tedious work that has to be done with precision,” Brown said.Departure from the cleanroom hangar is targeted for next week, when amotorized trailer carries the 3,400-pound satellite up the road to Complex37. It will be hoisted into the pad tower and bolted atop the rocket’ssecond stage. Interface testing will follow to make sure the electricalconnections are good. A rehearsal of the satellite’s countdown sequence isplanned, too. An artist’s concept shows a GPS 2F satellite in Earth orbit. Credit: BoeingBoeing is slated to build a dozen Block 2F satellites to replace thecurrent orbiting birds as they age, keeping the navigation signals goingstrong for years to come.”The importance is sometimes assumed, but it is worth noting. There areboth military and civil applications for GPS. It is a very criticalnational asset in both regards. From the military perspective, it’s prettyeasy to envision that. We use it to obtain precision navigation andtiming,” said Hale.”I think sometimes what people don’t understand are the civilapplications. One that I like to highlight that a lot of people don’trealize is the global economy is completely underpinned by the timingsignals that the GPS constellation provides. So all bank-to-banktransactions or your ATM transactions have a GPS time tag on them thatallows our economy to operate.”The Air Force could launch the GPS 2F-2 satellite as early as November using an Atlas 5 rocket from Complex 41.”Sustainment is the primary purpose of our launches. We have aconstellation of satellites in orbit, so we are sustaining the existingconstellation and incrementally bringing new capabilities on orbit. So theimpact having a single 2F on orbit with the 2F-1 you might not seedirectly a day after the launch, but what you will see is GPS 2F launcheswill incrementally improve the capabilities to meet the warfighters’ needsof tomorrow,” Hale said.”There is a lot of importance attached to the GPS constellation and it’sability to be accurate and be available at all times. 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